Board of Directors

Jarrod Ritchie BSc (Hons)

Managing Director/Executive Director

Jarrod Ritchie has over fifteen years experience in the opiates industry. He is the founder and Managing Director of TPI Enterprises (TPI) and has managed TPI from its inception as a start-up to its current position as Australia’s third licensed poppy processor.

Jarrod has spearheaded new research in the opiates industry, including TPI’s unique environmentally friendly, solvent-free process, and the successful trialing of a thebaine-rich variety of poppy, as yet unseen for commercial crops.

The establishment of TPI is a task Jarrod has undertaken against heavyweight competition. There are currently two other global pharmaceutical companies operating in Australia but both are foreign owned.

In 2008, Jarrod and the TPI team achieved the first commercial harvest of the only Australian licit narcotics manufacturing company, one of only nine manufacturers in the world.

Ross Dobinson BBus (Acc)

Chairman/Non-Executive Director

Ross Dobinson is a former chartered accountant with some experience in developing early stage technology companies.

He was the founding Director and is CEO of Acrux Limited and is now Chairman of the company; a founding Director and now a Non Executive Director of Starpharma Holdings Limited; a founding Director of Plantic Technologies Limited; a founding Director of Roc Oil Company Limited; a founding Director and current Non Executive Director of Healthfarm Fine Foods Pty Ltd; Chairman of Micronix Pty Ltd; CEO of PharmaQest Pty Ltd; Chairman of Diagnotech Pty Ltd; Chairman of Farm By Nature Pty Ltd; Chairman of Etech Group International Limited; and a Director of Horizon Science Limited.

Ross is familiar with the commercial development of technology from early phase through to product registration, and has international regulatory and commercialisation experience across a range of technologies. He is the Managing Director of TSL Group Limited, which provides commercial advisory advice to the life sciences sector.

Bruce Hancox

Non-Executive Director

Bruce has extensive corporate management and corporate governance experience, with over 35 years experience in corporate positions, manufacturing and retailing, including with Lane Walker Rudkin Industries (New Zealand’s leading clothing and fabric manufacturer) and A B Consolidated Limited (a biscuit and confectionary manufacturer). Bruce was also with Brierley Investments Limited for 19 years during which time the market capitalisation of that company increased from NZ$28 million to NZ$7 billion.

Bruce occupied the positions of General Manager, Group Chief Executive, and ultimately, Chairman of the Brierley Investments Limited Board of Directors. He also served as a director of many of the company’s subsidiary and associated Boards in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, giving him experience in a range of industries and business sectors.

More recently, he has held directorships with a regional port company and national meat company and also acted as strategic advisor to various other companies including the Michel’s Group Australia Pty Ltd (‘TMGA’), the intellectual property owner and manager of the Michel’s Patisserie franchise system.